Thales,
leader in information systems and communications security, announces
that InfoSecurity Products Guide has recognized Thales (News - Alert) keyAuthority®
as Best Encryption Product in its 2014 Global Excellence Awards. The
prestigious award recognizes Thales as a global leader in the IT
security industry with advanced, ground-breaking data protection
solutions.

Enterprises today understand the importance of cryptography to ensure
the security of critical data - both on premise and in the cloud.
However this creates significant key management challenges, particularly
as the number of applications and devices, often from different vendors,
increases. To combat complexity, unnecessary operational costs and to
ease compliance, valuable operational efficiencies can be gained by
centralizing and automating key management. The value of separating key
management tasks from the applications that use the keys is further
increased in virtualized and cloud environments, where organizations can
retain in-house control of keys and still take advantage of cloud-based
encryption and data storage.

keyAuthority is a high assurance appliance that provides centralized
key management to lower the risk of security breaches and facilitate
compliance with stringent regulations and policies while also ensuring
that critical data remains available to the organization.

keyAuthority is a security-hardened appliance that manages encryption
keys on behalf of multiple classes of encryption devices, providing a
single, unified key management system to achieve a consistent security
policy, simplified administration, auditing and economies of scale.

keyAuthority delivers market-proven enterprise capabilities, such as
the automation of key lifecycle management controls, high scalability,
redundancy, support for multi-tenant environments and sophisticated
administrative role separation and key segregation.

keyAuthority offers the broadest and most complete support for the
latest Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) version 1.2
developed by the OASIS standards body, providing KMIP-enabled
interoperability for encryption-enabled products from leading vendors
including Brocade and Quantum (News - Alert).

Delivered in a tamper-resistant and tamper-evident hardware platform
certified to the stringent FIPS 140-2 Level 3 standard for the entire
chassis, keyAuthority offers long-term reliable protection of keys on
behalf of an organization' most critical applications and sensitive
data.

Cindy Provin, president, Thales e-Security, Inc., says:

"Thales keyAuthority is deployed in some of the most demanding
environments, including financial services and government, where high
levels of assurance and reliability are critical. Building on our
history of developing trusted hardware security modules (HSMs) and key
management solutions, Thales is ideally positioned to satisfy partner
and customer requirements for key management that ultimately supports
the entire organization. This award further recognizes our commitment to
delivering innovative and high quality data protection solutions that
enable our customers to protect their most valuable assets. We are
pleased and honored to receive such an award."

Thales e-Security is a leading global provider of data encryption and
cyber security solutions to the financial services, high technology,
manufacturing, government and technology sectors. With a 40-year track
record of protecting corporate and government information, Thales
solutions are used by four of the five largest energy and aerospace
companies, 22 NATO countries, and secure more than 80 percent of
worldwide payment transactions. Thales e-Security has offices in
Australia, France, Hong Kong, Norway, United States and the United
Kingdom. www.thales-esecurity.com

About Thales

Thales is a global technology leader for the Aerospace & Transportation
and the Defence & Security markets. In 2013, the company generated
revenues of €14.2 billion ($18.3 billion) with 65,000 employees in 56
countries. With its 25,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a
unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and
services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an
exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world
working with customers and local partners. www.thalesgroup.com

Positioned as a value-added systems integrator, equipment supplier and
service provider, Thales is one of Europe's leading players in the
security market. The Group's security teams work with government
agencies, local authorities and enterprise customers to develop and
deploy integrated, resilient solutions to protect citizens, sensitive
data and critical infrastructure.

Drawing on its strong cryptographic capabilities, Thales is one of the
world leaders in cybersecurity products and solutions for critical state
and military infrastructures, satellite networks and industrial and
financial companies. With a presence throughout the entire security
chain, Thales offers a comprehensive range of services and solutions
ranging from security consulting, intrusion detection and architecture
design to system certification, development and through-life management
of products and services, and security supervision with Security
Operation Centres in France and the United Kingdom.